I re-read your entire comment and don't see anything to change your initial claim, that using one of these services for one-to-many sharing is probably for illegal purposes. At least in my experience, people on discussion forums often share their works-in-progress using these services. It's a convenient way to make a file available to many without having to worry about excessive bandwidth use.
This can use much higher output power, as it's the room lighting which you want to reach all areas of the room anyway. A drawback though is that the duty cycle has to be near 100%, otherwise the room lighting would dim. That has to cut into bandwidth.
Transmitting the data through the air, you mean like WiFi and cell phones do all the time? Too bad we don't have a way to scramble the data in a way that makes its contents inaccessible unless someone has the "key"...
Well, if you see a file uploaded to RS and then it is downloaded by 10,000 users, it is probably not used for legal reasons.
Wow, have you ever heard of file distribution? Yeah, people actually do this legally all the time, when they create a file and then... distribute it using one of these services.
Some music has never, ever passed through an analog waveform as part of the end-to-end recording/playback process, until the eventual listener plays it on CD.
Nice example, somehow all-digital production completely slipped my mind. So basically if you define the 16-bit PCM recording to be the original material, it's by definition lossless.
Agreed on really high sample rates/bit depth being a waste for casual listening.
Was it was really worth the $40,000 they probably spent on them? Oh, that's right. It's a government organization. Spending money is in their job description.
Maybe the officials in charge of finding cheaters cheated on their math tests.
How does the Video Modem Work? The WHDI video modem takes the uncompressed HD video stream and breaks it into elements of visual importance. The various elements are then mapped onto the wireless channel in a way that gives elements with more visual importance a greater share of the channel resources, i.e. they are transmitted in a more robust manner. Elements that have less visual importance are allocated fewer channel resources. The result of this unique video-modem approach is that any errors in the wireless channel are not noticed as they only affect the less visually important bits. Very high rates of video information can be transmitted because the human eye can tolerate the errors that fall on the less important bits. Traditional wireless technologies (such as WiFi) do not differentiate between the least important and most important information, and thus cannot deliver the bandwidth or robustness of WHDI
Couldn't they have just said that it compresses the content like YouTube etc. do? I guess they didn't want to be associated with visual artifacts, but that's exactly what you'll get if there's compression.
More importantly, is it possible to record/digitize music without loss? Even a 16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo wave file is lossy when compared with the original material.
If I've learned anything from Slashdot, it's that this is a huge censorship case. They are preventing these people from using those phones to share their message, and it's the government too!
Sir, you need to learn the new basics of reporting: inflammatory headline that has basic facts wrong, article that is filled with fluff and leaves you wanting more, links to similar fluffy articles, and most importantly, ads.
If the vendors can't agree on a standard, why do you think a standards body can? Besides, as someone else said, the C++ standard doesn't specify object files or linking; that's open to the compiler, since platforms differ widely in what they support and how things are compiled and built into a program.
The headline and summary repeat the point way too many times:
1. Spam Volume Spikes After Holiday Respite
2. The amount of spam hitting users' inboxes fell off a cliff in late December, with many security experts attributing the decline to the sudden disappearance of the Rustock botnet and other networks from the spam business. But the level of spam has begun to gain back some of the ground it lost today as other spammers have taken up the slack.
3. Researchers say that after the sudden drop-off in spam volumes, things stayed fairly quiet for a time, but now it seems that other spammers have picked up where Rustock and the other spamming operations left off.
4. The volume of spam took a big jump upward in the last 24 hours, according to researchers at Websense. The volume of spam hasn't made it all the way back to the levels of the last few months of 2010, but it seems to be on the way.
That's the point; making it colorful and interesting caused a significant reduction in utility. The plain HTML list approach would have communicated the same information, yet been easily viewable and searchable in any browser, with no need for a PDF. It could still have been with the color gradient as well, and black background.
Besides, anyone who talks of operator overload misuse being a problem can just be rebutted by pointing them to macro misuse. In code with sane overloading/macro use, neither is a problem.
I disagree on several points. C is great for low level programming, but many times you want to use OO rather than procedural programming. C++ allows you to do exactly the same low level programming you can do in C (including inline-assembler if needed), but also offers the ability to design in OO.
This is why I use C++ instead of C. I can start with basically C code, then mix in whatever C++ features are a benefit to the project, and ignore the rest. Currently I use a pretty small set which provides significant benefits over coding in plain C. Sure, there's unmaintainable C++ code out there, but I'm using the C++ language, not that code, so it's irrelevant to me.
My point was that paragraph indention very likely was originally done in order to make it easier to visually distinguish paragraphs, to make reading easier. When paper is involved, the approach used should minimize wasted paper, thus indenting the first line rather than leaving an entire blank line between them. But where paper isn't involved, leaving a blank line wastes very little, and makes paragraphs easier to visually distinguish. Indention becomes redundant in this case, at least functionally. Maybe there is some strong stylistic reason to both indent and space paragraphs, but it's odd to do so in a forum like this where you have very little stylistic control over your message, and hardly anyone indents.
It's not the people, it's the power they are given (and that's not their fault, it's ours, all of us, and yet there is constant calls even here to give even more power).
You can already do it all with assembler, so it's all syntactic sugar. Presumably, they add it where they believe it will result in a net benefit. If you read the interview, you'll find there aren't many significant features, more refinement of current ones. R-value references seem the main addition, but this is mostly of interest to library authors (as most features are); users simply get cleaner library interfaces to use, not having to worry as much about avoiding copying of large objects.
Wouldn't it be better to just present it as a list of words, so that it could be rendered in HTML? For example
cold
winter steel case turkey
blood...
weather...
spring...
air...
water...
springs spots...
products new spot... hot
with the word lists getting smaller as you go to the right, of course (the... lists words I can't make out in his image). No need for the "peacock" arrangement that reduces readability and requires it being stored as an image.
It's worse than that. Think about it... this antimatter has been created by thunderstorms for centuries already. Therefore, it's certain that one created a black hole and it's already swallowed Earth, and we're already on a one-way path to total annihilation.
Here's an article about something scientific, what bacteria are doing, and oh yeah, it's so-and-so's fault. Oh well, forget discussion of the topic, and let's instead point fingers. More and more topics simply cannot be discussed anymore without getting sidetracked by blame. It's sickening.
Slashdot Mirror
I re-read your entire comment and don't see anything to change your initial claim, that using one of these services for one-to-many sharing is probably for illegal purposes. At least in my experience, people on discussion forums often share their works-in-progress using these services. It's a convenient way to make a file available to many without having to worry about excessive bandwidth use.
This can use much higher output power, as it's the room lighting which you want to reach all areas of the room anyway. A drawback though is that the duty cycle has to be near 100%, otherwise the room lighting would dim. That has to cut into bandwidth.
Transmitting the data through the air, you mean like WiFi and cell phones do all the time? Too bad we don't have a way to scramble the data in a way that makes its contents inaccessible unless someone has the "key"...
Wow, have you ever heard of file distribution? Yeah, people actually do this legally all the time, when they create a file and then... distribute it using one of these services.
Nice example, somehow all-digital production completely slipped my mind. So basically if you define the 16-bit PCM recording to be the original material, it's by definition lossless.
Agreed on really high sample rates/bit depth being a waste for casual listening.
Maybe the officials in charge of finding cheaters cheated on their math tests.
Well, at least the future World Wide Web isn't so bleak, just the future future World Wide Web.
Couldn't they have just said that it compresses the content like YouTube etc. do? I guess they didn't want to be associated with visual artifacts, but that's exactly what you'll get if there's compression.
More importantly, is it possible to record/digitize music without loss? Even a 16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo wave file is lossy when compared with the original material.
If I've learned anything from Slashdot, it's that this is a huge censorship case. They are preventing these people from using those phones to share their message, and it's the government too!
Sir, you need to learn the new basics of reporting: inflammatory headline that has basic facts wrong, article that is filled with fluff and leaves you wanting more, links to similar fluffy articles, and most importantly, ads.
If the vendors can't agree on a standard, why do you think a standards body can? Besides, as someone else said, the C++ standard doesn't specify object files or linking; that's open to the compiler, since platforms differ widely in what they support and how things are compiled and built into a program.
1. Spam Volume Spikes After Holiday Respite
2. The amount of spam hitting users' inboxes fell off a cliff in late December, with many security experts attributing the decline to the sudden disappearance of the Rustock botnet and other networks from the spam business. But the level of spam has begun to gain back some of the ground it lost today as other spammers have taken up the slack.
3. Researchers say that after the sudden drop-off in spam volumes, things stayed fairly quiet for a time, but now it seems that other spammers have picked up where Rustock and the other spamming operations left off.
4. The volume of spam took a big jump upward in the last 24 hours, according to researchers at Websense. The volume of spam hasn't made it all the way back to the levels of the last few months of 2010, but it seems to be on the way.
That's the point; making it colorful and interesting caused a significant reduction in utility. The plain HTML list approach would have communicated the same information, yet been easily viewable and searchable in any browser, with no need for a PDF. It could still have been with the color gradient as well, and black background.
Besides, anyone who talks of operator overload misuse being a problem can just be rebutted by pointing them to macro misuse. In code with sane overloading/macro use, neither is a problem.
This is why I use C++ instead of C. I can start with basically C code, then mix in whatever C++ features are a benefit to the project, and ignore the rest. Currently I use a pretty small set which provides significant benefits over coding in plain C. Sure, there's unmaintainable C++ code out there, but I'm using the C++ language, not that code, so it's irrelevant to me.
Interesting; thanks.
My point was that paragraph indention very likely was originally done in order to make it easier to visually distinguish paragraphs, to make reading easier. When paper is involved, the approach used should minimize wasted paper, thus indenting the first line rather than leaving an entire blank line between them. But where paper isn't involved, leaving a blank line wastes very little, and makes paragraphs easier to visually distinguish. Indention becomes redundant in this case, at least functionally. Maybe there is some strong stylistic reason to both indent and space paragraphs, but it's odd to do so in a forum like this where you have very little stylistic control over your message, and hardly anyone indents.
It's not the people, it's the power they are given (and that's not their fault, it's ours, all of us, and yet there is constant calls even here to give even more power).
You can already do it all with assembler, so it's all syntactic sugar. Presumably, they add it where they believe it will result in a net benefit. If you read the interview, you'll find there aren't many significant features, more refinement of current ones. R-value references seem the main addition, but this is mostly of interest to library authors (as most features are); users simply get cleaner library interfaces to use, not having to worry as much about avoiding copying of large objects.
This guy also did that on his earlier visualizations (not in this current "peacock" style though).
cold ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
winter steel case turkey
blood
weather
spring
air
water
springs spots
products new spot
hot
with the word lists getting smaller as you go to the right, of course (the ... lists words I can't make out in his image). No need for the "peacock" arrangement that reduces readability and requires it being stored as an image.
Coral Cache (just add .nyud.net to any URL's hostname)
It's worse than that. Think about it... this antimatter has been created by thunderstorms for centuries already. Therefore, it's certain that one created a black hole and it's already swallowed Earth, and we're already on a one-way path to total annihilation.
P.S. Enjoy your higher cap until Vodafone implements similar.
Here's an article about something scientific, what bacteria are doing, and oh yeah, it's so-and-so's fault. Oh well, forget discussion of the topic, and let's instead point fingers. More and more topics simply cannot be discussed anymore without getting sidetracked by blame. It's sickening.